Fantastic Maps: The Ice Temple

Jonathan Roberts cartographer, for Kobold Quarterly and Adventures in the Hyborian Age, presents: “The Ice Temple”. This multi-page PDF allows you to print out the battlemap at a 1 inch=1 square scale as a letter-format map and is also available in a printer-friendly light grayscale version.

A dragon hangs in the frozen waterfall, trapped by ancient ritual. As long as the sacrifices are made every Midwinter's Eve the dragon will remain at bay, like an axe poised over the kingdom ensuring unwavering loyalty to the priests of the God of Winter. Can a hero save the maiden from her fate, escape the crumbling temple of ice and defeat the dragon as it is freed from its centuries long imprisonment?

Update: Now it comes with an A4 version, a light colour version and greyscale version. The pack also includes the maptool packs (OGL and 4E) with light and shade as well as a couple of different runic circles as separate pngs. We have attached the new cover too.

" Unlike the previous reviewers, I will approch from the practical side. I must admit that the quality of the maps are high, although for me they are practically useless. First of all, the product is formatted for letter size papers. It is ok if you are [...]

Unlike the previous reviewers, I will approch from the practical side. I must admit that the quality of the maps are high, although for me they are practically useless. First of all, the product is formatted for letter size papers. It is ok if you are [...]

To be honest, I rarely think about the cartographer of the maps I use in my games. Partially because the publishers rarely promote the individual cartographer, instead relying more so on branding their name. However, Jonathan Roberts, is one of those [...]

Fantastic Maps: The Ice Temple is a 33 page pdf file from cartographer Jonathan Roberts and Rite Publishing. This product is one of several products in the Fantastic Maps series, each product featuring a 1-inch scale battlemap of a unique and interesting [...]

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